Hello and welcome to my blog. I am presently doing a Masters in Public Health at University of California, Berkeley as a break from spending the last four years working as a lab rat towards a PhD on malaria vaccine development in the UK in Prof. Adrian Hill’s group.

I needed a break from benchwork,perhaps because my initial training as a physician in India equipped me poorly to deal with the compulsive,isolated and topsy-turvy world of lab research. So now, I am enjoying the Californian sunshine, Napa valley wines and occasional classroom lecture.

What is my blog going to be about? I don’t know, but I can definitely tell you its going to be eclectic. I am interested in vaccines and vaccinology (whatever that might mean) and I suspect most of my posts might harp on vaccine news overheard in talks, conferences or just the published word. I might just moan a little bit now and then about my experiences in a classroom and attending lectures after working for four years in a lab. But, the truth is that you might just have to wait and watch!!

On a personal note, just finished a terrible exam in epidemiology and am avoiding doing statistics homework by blogging.